2. And of course, we finally got the tape of Anthony Scaramucci’s call to New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza, in which there was a lot more laughing than you might have imagined. The lesson from all three is, sadly, the same lesson that shows up year after year when journalists roll in just behind used car salesman in those “least trusted profession” surveys.

3. Also on the phone is Snap, whose stocks finally rose thanks to another journo, our own Alex Heath, who reported that Google offered to buy the company for at least $US30 billion last year. It’s worth about $US14 billion right now and reportedly, the offer is still on the table.

4. To markets, and the Bank of England was dovish last night, resulting in a dip for the pound. Reports that the UK seems so badly prepared for Brexit negotiations that other EU countries think it must be a trap probably aren’t helping things either. The US dollar is under pressure awaiting tonight’s all important jobs report, and in Australia, we get retail sales data and the Reserve Bank’s quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy, both released at 11:30am. David Scutt reckons it could be a wild session for the Australian dollar today.

5. The Aussie dollar is rising, Amazon is moving in to destroy local retailers, and Sydney and Melbourne housing is slipping further out of reach as wages growth sucks. Seems like a good week to get the treasurer in for a chat. Scott Morrison joins us for this week’s podcast. Find it on iTunes, or listen in below.

10. A missile defence expert says North Korea’s ICBM tests don’t mean anything because it’s only firing them vertically. To test it properly, the missile has to be fired in a proper flat trajectory, which means to avoid a global war, Kim Jong Un has to find a target about 9000km away in a massive virtually empty landscape…

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